| View From the Murney Tower: Salem Bland, the Late-Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity, Volume 1 Subjects: Bland Salem Goldworth 1859-1950 -- 1950; Social gospel; Church and social problems; Canada -- Church history -- 19th century; United Church of Canada -- Clergy -- Biography; More than just biography, however, The View from the Murney Tower is also an examination of progressive religion in late-Victorian Canada, a time in which Darwinism and other Biblical, social, and intellectual controversies were profoundly affecting the growth of a young nation. Allen Richard : Richard Allen is a Canadian historian now retired from the Department of History at McMaster University. |